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  1. Re:Supercharging the cells with ions ! on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius · · Score: 1
    I think that's what GP said.

    Said difference is measured in ,,Watt''.

  2. Confusing summary on PS Vita TV's Killer App: Remote Play · · Score: 4, Informative

    [W]hen you're in the middle of a game and someone wants to watch TV, you can just grab a Vita and keep on playing.

    The way the summary is written implies that you need a Vita TV to stream to a Vita, but you don't. What the article actually says is that, instead of streaming direct to a Vita, you could instead stream to a Vita TV connected to another TV.

    I can see "Vita" and "Vita TV" causing a lot of customer confusion.

  3. I cahn't believe it's not... uh... on Icahn Abandons Bid To Prevent Dell From Going Private · · Score: 1

    ...line?

  4. Re:"The only problem? It's GMO." on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 1

    I know yours was more on-topic, but you wanted an example of a whacko theory on a website and you didn't go for this guy?

  5. Re:Hope they bring there towel on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 2

    You forgot about the telephone sanitizers. Everyone always forgets about the telephone sanitizers.

  6. Re:the best os for creative people on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    If you're talking in terms of images, then you mean bitmaps.

    Or not.

  7. Terrible headline on Ars Test Drives the "Netflix For Books" · · Score: 1

    Ars Test Drives the "Netflix For Books"

    Using a word that could be a noun or a verb - worse still, using two of them in succession - doesn't make for an easy-to-read headline. Especially if you initially fuck it up and write:

    Ars Tests Drives the "Netflix For Books"

    Just "tests" (or a hyphenated "test-drives" if you must) would have been a lot easier on the brain.

    It's made worse by Ars being a contraction that looks like a typo.

  8. Re:Why don't they just learn English? on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1
  9. What was he ACTUALLY convicted of? on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 2

    Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests

    Was he really? Or was he actually jailed for obstruction and wire fraud, as the linked article implies? It says that's what he plead guilty to last year, but isn't explicit.

  10. Re:well on Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking · · Score: 2

    that's what they want you to think.

    That's what they want you to think.

  11. Re:Air Conditioning... on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    Why air conditioning?

    Americans can't function without it. Or so TV has led me to believe.

  12. Re:The Army is not the only one who wants this on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 2

    A powered exoskeleton would make any type of heavy lifting trivial

    So do tail lifts, forklift trucks, pump trucks, and sack trucks, just like they've had at Walmart for decades. No need to invent the space pen when a pencil will do*.

    *yes, I do know that story is apocryphal.

  13. Hah! Is funny because Tony Stark is fictional!

  14. Re:So which is it? on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you're not the only human in the world, and other people - both individually and on average - are different to you. Did you ever consider that?

  15. Re:The simulator on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have no idea what I'm doing, but my cat just disappeared.

  16. Re:Unfortunately on Qcloud Puts Quantum Chip In the Cloud For Coders To Experiment · · Score: 1

    In quantum encryption, it is impossible to 'listen' into a message without being detected.

    The unintentional implication of that phrasing is that it is still possible to listen (albeit detected). What you do of course is transmit the key on the quantum channel, and if you detect anyone listening in at that point, you discard the key (actually, if I remember correctly, you just discard any intercepted bits and use the rest for the key). Once the key's got across can happily shout your encoded message from the rooftops (or other more practical classical channel).

  17. Re:Summary can't make up it's mind on Suborbital Spaceflight Picks Up Speed · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would have really rubbed me up the wrong way.

  18. Re:Gattica on NIH Studies Universal Genome Sequencing At Birth · · Score: 1

    You'd also need to know that movie is about genetics, and even then it'd be a bit of a leap to infer that the I in Gattica was a typo.

  19. Re:Gattica on NIH Studies Universal Genome Sequencing At Birth · · Score: 1

    It's Gattaca. No "I" for obvious reasons if you've seen the film (or at least the titles).

  20. Re:WTF National Geographic??!! on New Giant Volcano Below Sea Is Largest In the World · · Score: 1

    Dammit. I was happily unaware of the existence of Anita Bryant until you posted.

  21. Re:Y does not follow X. on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    from what I remember the kid was standing on the sidewalk

    Oh, you were there, were you? Oh wait, no, you weren't. Nor were you sitting on the jury day after day listening to reams of evidence and testimony.

    from what I heard from TV

    FTFY.

  22. Re:The View From Jerry's Desk. on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1
    What has this copypasta from 2007 (or before) got to do with anything?

    I for one would NOT place my trust in such a tool

    And yet you walk the streets every day blithely ignoring the much greater probability of being struck by a falling meteorite?

  23. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 1

    You're still not explaining what, exactly, your problem with the idea of Mitochondrial Eve is. I'm not even sure if you have one, since you won't deign to use your own words. The fact that other women living during Eve's time have living descendents doesn't mean anything to the concept of Mitochondrial Eve.

  24. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 1

    Could you explain what argument from ignorance has to do with this? I can only guess (as you've chosen not to be explicit) that you're implying that the argument for Mito. Eve's existence is one from ignorance, but I don't see why you'd think that.

    I'd also appreciate you expanding on

    Mitochondrial Eve is not a fixed individual, had a mother, was not the only woman of her time

    Because I still can't see why any of that suggests Mitochondrial Eve didn't exist.

  25. Re:What I've said all along on Genetic Convergent Evolution: Stunning Gene Similarities Among Diverse Animals · · Score: 2

    Does any of that mean we don't all share a common female ancestor?